Hana yori Dango 2

This second season of Hana Yori Dango picks up right after Domyouji leaves for New York. After confessing to Domyouji, Makino has not spoken to him for a year. Rui and the other members of F4 try and help Makino meet Domyouji again by going to New York for the christmas holidays. Though F4 and Makino meet Domyouji again, he has become a completely different person, and so they leave for Japan.

I finished HYD2 a few days ago and actually it wasnt as bad as I expected. I tend to keep my expectations of sequels and spinoffs fairly low to make sure I don’t get too dissapointed and allow me to still enjoy a series somewhat. But as I said, while I still like season 1 of HYD, HYD2 was actually pretty good, at least it had a more closed ending, which is too bad, then there WON’T be a 3rd season. It’d be a laugh to see what life’s like for Makino after being engaged to Tsukasa. It’d be cool if they did a special or wedding special of some sort.

Overall, It was a pretty decent sequel. I didn’t like it how Tsukasa was being so selfish, considering only his feelings, I think the producers could have done a better job with that particular storyline, as I was constantly lost at the way Tsukasa was acting. I felt so bad for Rui! Every girl he’s ever loved can’t seem to return his feelings! poor guy. He’ll always be my favourite though 🙂 He’s always there for Makino and has an instinct in picking up the good and bad people straight up.

One thing I’m a bit peeved at is that Yuki and Nishikada didn’t end up getting together! So close! Ah well. They make an interesting couple I’d say. In HYD2, the F4 members’ background were revealed a bit more which I found interesting. I guess one of the key messages of HYD2 is that no matter how rich or poor you are, everyone’s out to seek meanign to life, and tryign to live it as true to yourself as they can. Because life is too short, once the moment’s pass, it’s gone forever, often there are no second chances, you just gotta take the first. And Nishikada learned that the hard way.